I am doing Tuesday updates today since some of us will be busy on Christmas Eve, and I have an update. I spent all weekend emailing nanny proposals to DH. He ended up taking the highest paying one (actually higher than I had said) and asked her about it. She decided to stay on for hybrid with that.
I think she really doesn't want to switch families during Covid because she doesn't know how careful a new family would be, and we are being careful. All the money we set aside in the FSA was gone this summer, so we found some other funds for fall- January, and that's all gone. So I guess this is coming out of DH's raise which probably doesn't cover the entirety of the cost, but when he realized I was still going to work and the kids would still be there with him by themselves screeching and slamming doors, he decided to go in this direction.
I had two “student teachers” this fall (I put that in quotes because they didn’t come in at all or teach virtually). The boy was great - he met with us on zoom every week, talked through curriculum with us, planned with us, asked questions, helped us design a project. The girl...sucked. She met with us once, camera and mic off. Did nothing.
She emailed me at 2:15 yesterday asking me to sign off on her field work. Ummmm...what field work? Whatever. I don’t care. I’ll do it when I’m on my computer.
She just emailed me again at 9:15 asking me to do it again. Dude, it’s been 7 hours. We are on break. It is not my problem that you have to have this in tomorrow and you gave it to me today. Not my problem.
Also, the stupid thing isn’t filled out. It’s totally blank. Am I supposed to recreate things we talked about (not a chance...I’m not lying and it’s not my job to do your work)? I suspect she won’t make it as a teacher too long...
"Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
erbear, I can't believe they didn't come in or teach virtually at all. That is crazy to me. I didn't stay in teaching- I moved to another education type field, but I definitely student taught in person the entire semester and would have done so during a pandemic as well.
erbear, I can't believe they didn't come in or teach virtually at all. That is crazy to me. I didn't stay in teaching- I moved to another education type field, but I definitely student taught in person the entire semester and would have done so during a pandemic as well.
They couldn’t. We were in person and we weren’t allowed to have anyone else inside the school. They were supposed to meet and plan with us - he did, she didn’t. I am hoping they will do another round of student teaching but I doubt it. Trial by fire is going to be ROUGH if anyone even hires them!
"Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
I went to go buy myself my new mother's ring last night and beau came with me since we were going to finish up holiday errands without the kids. As I'm getting ready to pay, he stepped in asked if he could buy it for me. It TOTALLY caught me off guard in front of the salesperson and I kind of stammered out a "no, no, you don't have to do that" response and ended up buying it myself as planned. I know it's not A Ring but it was still a ring! That's a weighted gift! I was not prepared at all. When we got back in the car he admitted that it was a big jump to offer suddenly like that, but that if we want to talk about buying rings, we can start to have that conversation.
I’m moving very slowly after my spill yesterday. Less back/bum, more hip pain which has me concerned. I broke my pelvis on the same side many years ago, and I’m feeling a lot of the same pain. But there’s nothing they can do for that but rest, and that’s certainly not happening.
We are going to a walk through light display tonight. I bought the tickets in October, very limited sales, time slots and time limits. Also limited parking so it can’t get too crowded. They usually have remote parking and a shuttle bus, but not this year. It will be challenging for me for sure since I’m not walking well, but the kids are so excited!!
Right?! I was kind of shocked. We had talked previously about how neither of us was ready to jump back into marriage given how burned we both got last time around. He was especially cautious about the idea of it. So I was totally surprised by this reaction!
I still don't see it happening any time soon, but it feels really good that he's bringing it up.
Guinea Pigs are very noisy and messy. They're also super cute so I'm willing to look past it. The girls are obsessed with them and screen time is down.
mae0111 it doesn’t hurt to get it checked out. You may be over compensating for pain in one area and putting stress on another. I know my hip hurt from damaging my ilotobial band and what I was trying to do to help my hip was making things worse.
DS's covid test went as smoothly as it could have. He wasn't a fan, but he did great. Knowing what I know now about how it works, I'm kind of wishing that we'd just taken him yesterday and said we were confused about what day it was.. we probably won't have results until Thursday or Friday, and I really would have liked to be able to send them to daycare Thursday.
Also.. our neighbors are going to Chicago and we're going to watch their puppy for them from Monday - Saturday. I feel like this is either going to end up with us getting our own or completely eliminating all chance of ever having a dog with no middle ground between the two options.
It's hard for me to express how much I love the YMCA.
My older kids are doing skateboarding camp each of these break weeks Monday-Wednesday. Our YMCA used to have drop in skateboarding at the skate park (it's a nice skate park - where Shawn White and some other well-known people learned as kids), but now you have to sign up and pay in advance so they have small stable groups. Yesterday and then again today when I dropped my kids off at 8:30 am, there were two little boys similar to my older kid's ages (6 and 8) just sort of wandering around and watching the kids skateboarding from outside the fence.
I asked the college kid doing check-in who they were and he said "oh, they're staying up the street, and just watching." I got in my car and was about to drive away but it was so clear that they wanted to be in there skateboarding too. So I got the toddler out of the car and went over to someone more senior in the main day camp area and pointed out the kids and said I'd be happy to pay for them to do skate camp if they wanted to. He said he would go talk with them. Then I sent an email to make sure he knew what my name was.
I just got an email back that the kids said they were staying nearby with their uncle, and they gave the kids a number for their uncle to call. So now the boys are signed up for skateboarding camp next week and the Y is going to cover the cost!
The kids looked well taken care of, but I can see how even financially stable families wouldn't pay for kids on break to be at a skate park all day when they could just do it in the neighborhood. But I'm so glad they get to go.
sdlaura, also a huge fan of the YMCA. We would be lost without their daycare and programs. The girls are going there tomorrow for a Kids Day Out of School Day and are so excited to swim and ice skate.
I know I don’t post much but I read the posts every day and stay current. All four of us are on winter break and spending the week trying not to overindulge on Christmas excitement prematurely. We’ve spent several hours at the neighborhood playground. Today the kids and I went to the dentist. There are gifts wrapped and hidden in every corner of the house...we actually ran out of gift wrap so I’m declaring ourselves done with all gift buying.
I signed DD up for a week of Girl Scout sleep away camp for June, which will be followed by a week of YMCA sleepover camp. We also love our area Y programming.
vasc I’m kind of in awe that you can sign up for sleep away camp. I’m hoping that by June soccer can scrimmage and ice skating can resume.
Well, I’ll say we’ve signed up and paid deposits but I guess anything can happen between now and spring. I live in SC though, and our Governor says we are “open for business,” so there’s that? He and his wife currently have COVID. 🤷🏼♀️
Beau's son realized he hadn't gotten his mom and dad anything for Christmas on Monday, so I told him I'd go buy stuff for him to give them. He told me video game stuff would be great, since he plays games with each of them a lot. I figured "How hard can this be to find some kind of video game themed holiday ornament or cheapo gift at Target or Walmart?" I planned to spend a couple bucks each, not a big deal.
(Narrator: Except it was a big deal. It was a very, very big deal.)
There are no video game items to be found anywhere nearby in the price point I was willing to spend. I'm going to run out at lunch today for a last ditch effort. There's a store in the mall that sells that kind of pop culture stuff. I already want to die just thinking about going to the mall today. But I promised the poor kid and he was so happy that I was going to be his accomplice. Wish me luck.
It is so dead at work right now, except for accounting. Who are the only people I need to talk to but they’re slammed so it may just wait until Jan. 4 at this rate. I have decided to sign my kids up for camp starting late-June. I have two weeks of credit from last summer and they’re about to start their winter sale, they called me up to see if I wanted to pre-book. Yes! 4 weeks, please. Done. If my mom isn’t vaccinated by then they’ll just have to not see us for 6 weeks because omg poor DD1 is starting to think she’s either one of the dogs or a middle aged WFH professional. 🤣🤣🤣
twinmomma - omg good luck to you. Are there any little gift shops near you? Maybe they have something. Or check Facebook market place? I feel like crafters are out in force this year and selling all things trendy all over Facebook.
I was able to get an instacart delivery yesterday, which was great since I could barely move and couldn’t lift anything. Except I’m now realizing how much stuff I missed on my list. So now I have to go to the grocery store at some point today, which makes me want to cry.
Also, DH said he was taking next week off... and has just told me that he didn’t mean OFF off, just taking it easy. Since he usually works about 70 hours, I guess that maybe means 40? At least I was able to get some gym time next week so the kids can play basketball for a few hours.
mae0111, OMG. Genius! I can just make ornaments with my Cricut myself! It'll take no time and I have a bunch of extra plain ball ornaments hanging around the house already.
mae0111, OMG. Genius! I can just make ornaments with my Cricut myself! It'll take no time and I have a bunch of extra plain ball ornaments hanging around the house already.
mae0111 , OMG. Genius! I can just make ornaments with my Cricut myself! It'll take no time and I have a bunch of extra plain ball ornaments hanging around the house already.
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I wish I had that kind of skill!
LOL I bought designs on Etsy and just have to use the Cricut to cut out the vinyl stickers and slap them on the ornaments.
I'm loving the mom who is running DD's zoom workouts. She switched it to 10am for break and it gives DD something to do while stuck at work with me. Plus the girls are chatting and laughing which just brightens my day listening to it.
DH is withdrawing more and more with the holidays approaching. DD is picking up on it a lot this year. Her comment to friends we were book swapping with last night was so sad. "Daddy just can't handle the holidays so we leave him alone" We've known these friends from infant days so they know the backstory but it is still so hard to deal with.
My anxiety level has been a lot less this week than last. No help from the doctors office so have to wait until 1/13 for my telehealth appointment. I'm tempted to cancel it if things don't get worse the first week of January.
Post by librarychica on Dec 23, 2020 14:13:44 GMT -5
I am considering sending our 1 year old dog to board and train. We got her as a rescue 2 months ago. I’ve owned/trained many a dog and I didn’t have these issues with our other dog, but I can’t get this one properly socialized because of COVID, she is super aggressive but only when people come in the door (a rare thing these days but my mom is afraid of her now, though she is only 15lbs), and she’s stuck at 95% house broken. I am at my wits end. She’s so sweet when it’s just us but we live in a society!